Vaccination campaigns have nearly eradicated some of the most deadly and transmissible diseases. In a rising tide of vaccine ...

Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in the late ... More than 200 years ago, physician Edward Jenner made a crucial-discovery which led to the first vaccine. He found that milkmaids who developed ...

On a quiet summer day in 1978, then-40-year-old medical photographer Janet Parker came down with chicken pox, or so she thought. Within nine days, Mrs. Parker was admitted to the hospital, being too ...

Abbe Dubois established a St Mary’s Chapel, the first Catholic church in Bangalore Cantonment, in an area called Blackpully ...

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

Recursion Pharmaceuticals—a relatively small company backed by the chip giant Nvidia—is betting that its massive ...

In this issue, we explore the forgotten patients in global healthcare settings – the marginalised groups who fall through the ...

On May 8, 1980, forty-five years ago, the World Health Organization, a part of the United Nations, announced that officials had eradicated smallpox from the world’s population. The last case ...